YourDictionary

levee quotes

  • O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.

    -William Congreve
      Lady Wishfort to Foible. The Way of the World, act 4, sc.1.

  • So bye, bye, Miss American Pie, Drove my Chevy to the levee But the levee was dry. Them good old boys was drinkin' whiskeyand rye Singin' 'This'll be the day that I die.'

    - Don McLean
      'American Pie'.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Learn more about levee

link/cite print suggestion box